John Bolton - September 15, 2025


GOVERNMENT is back... So buckle up. The CIRCUS is back in town!


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It's the greatest day of the year, folks! Government's back! We are on the cusp of solving all the problems here in Canada, and I'm feeling oh so optimistic. Do you feel optimistic?

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00:00:00.000 It's the greatest day of the year, folks. Government's back. Oh joy, oh bliss.
00:00:08.080 Hi, it's John and welcome to the channel 523 AM, Monday, September the 15th. I hope you're having
00:00:14.340 a great start to your week. Hope you had a good weekend. It was lovely here in Calgary. And as
00:00:18.860 usual, I do have my big blue mug of coffee this morning. And I hope that your coffee is tasting
00:00:24.220 as sweet as mine this morning. Because folks, we are on the cusp of solving all the problems
00:00:30.120 here in Canada. And I'm feeling oh so optimistic because Parliament is back today. Do you feel
00:00:38.360 optimistic? The damage that was done by the Liberals through the summertime can only be
00:00:47.220 accelerated now that we've got Parliament back. And I'm going to tell you in just a moment
00:00:51.040 what I expect from Parliament. Have you been keeping track of the money that Mark Carney
00:00:58.480 and the Liberals, your money, the money they've been throwing around since the beginning of
00:01:02.580 summertime? And then ask yourself the question when I run through a few of these things, and
00:01:06.600 this is not a complete list, folks. This isn't including the billions upon billions of dollars
00:01:11.680 in foreign spending in places like Ukraine and Gaza. This is just a few of the things.
00:01:16.800 When I go through this short list, and I'm going to go through a couple of them a little
00:01:20.100 more concisely and a little more complete in just a moment, is your life any better because
00:01:25.980 of all this spending? How is the cost of living working out for you after all of this spending?
00:01:31.920 And I'll tell you, of the things I list here, there's probably only one I think the government
00:01:35.840 has any business in being in.
00:01:38.400 So let's look at this. The government has said they're going to spend $9 billion more
00:01:45.600 on defense. Housing program announced yesterday $13 billion just to start. This is not all the
00:01:53.560 money that the government is spending on this housing program they're coming up with.
00:01:57.420 Infrastructure projects, national projects of interest, $60 billion. The Buy Canada program,
00:02:03.300 $5 billion. $5 billion more for employment insurance. And the reason for that is more
00:02:09.880 people are going to be unemployed and they're going to be unemployed for longer. $370 million
00:02:14.940 for the canola industry, $1.2 billion bailout for the lumber industry, and it goes on and on.
00:02:20.100 And if you just count what I've mentioned here, that's almost $100 billion in spending.
00:02:25.820 And Carney and the Liberals are going to tell you, your life is better because of all of this
00:02:29.300 spending of your money, is it? The things on that list that Mark Carney and the Liberals
00:02:34.900 are spending massive amounts of your money on are things that really shouldn't require
00:02:39.060 your dollars at all. And those things on that list are problems created by the Liberal Party
00:02:43.940 in the first place. Other than defense spending, most of those things can be handled by the private
00:02:49.020 sector. Now, you might say EI is certainly a government issue. Well, the unemployment issue has
00:02:55.040 been caused by Mark Carney because he hasn't solved the tariff issue. People are losing their
00:02:59.200 jobs because of that. That's why we're spending $5 billion to fix the problem. 1.00
00:03:05.200 Carney thinks that he can create wealth by spending your money. Grover Norquist, the anti-tax crusader
00:03:11.600 from the United States said, government creates wealth like ticks create blood. And what this is,
00:03:18.320 with all this spending, is a massive expansion of government because he's creating new government
00:03:23.120 offices to handle issues that could be handled regularly by the private sector. When it comes to housing,
00:03:29.920 construction companies know how to build houses. We don't need the government to do that. When it
00:03:33.280 comes to building infrastructure projects, pipelines for instance, government's in the way with
00:03:37.520 regulations. We aren't seeing investment. We've said this before, we aren't seeing investment because
00:03:41.680 of government regulations. But Carney doesn't want to solve that problem. He wants to create more
00:03:45.840 bureaucracy, more big government, more socialism, I guess you could say, if we want to go that far.
00:03:50.800 We've got this woman here, Dawn Farrell, who is running the major projects office here in Calgary.
00:03:57.600 She's getting paid between $577,000 and $679,000 a year. This is Mark Carney's friend. This is just one
00:04:06.240 person in that office. What is this office costing us? A billion dollars a year? She's got to have office 0.99
00:04:12.080 staff. $2 billion a year? We don't know. Meanwhile, we go to this story right here. Carney says he's going
00:04:18.800 to cut the public service through attrition because he's too much of a coward to actually cut some jobs.
00:04:24.160 But if we go down here to the bottom, we currently have 357,965 people working for the federal
00:04:30.480 government. Why are we having to hire people? Do we not have anybody out of 350,000 people that could
00:04:36.960 actually run this office? Which we don't need in the first place because if we go to this story,
00:04:42.160 Michael Higgins, Mark Carney's major projects office is a fraud. Despite Prime Minister Mark Carney's
00:04:49.200 hyperbole in announcing five nation building projects Thursday, what he actually proclaimed
00:04:54.000 was rather modest in scope. The projects are not new and many of them have already spent years on
00:04:59.840 Canada's regulatory runaround circuit. Now they must go through Carney's new major projects office
00:05:05.520 as well as intense scrutiny from a new Indigenous Advisory Council. Mark Carney is the decider of everything.
00:05:13.280 And then we get this. This is Warren Kinsella. Smart? This is Carney talking about his new
00:05:19.520 Build Canada Homes organization. The government is now in charge of building homes in this country, folks.
00:05:27.600 The private sector can do this. Here's Priya Paliyev talking back in April. I think it was April.
00:05:34.960 April 10th about this new project. Here's what he had to say. The same Liberal promise. The only difference
00:05:40.320 is now Mr. Carney's promising a $35 billion modular home program. Well, it turns out that Brookfield
00:05:47.120 is invested in modular homes. So he's got another conflict of interest that will...
00:05:53.600 Yeah. So he started with $13 billion yesterday with this new housing project. He's going to spend a lot
00:05:58.960 more on this. Construction companies know how to build houses. Why do we need to spend your money on
00:06:05.360 shit like this? Because it's massive government expansion. Spend less, invest more. It's all spending,
00:06:11.920 a lot of spending, and it's your money. And then we get to this. This is Sheila Gunn-Reed doing a report
00:06:18.960 on his defense spending. Do you have any idea of what the defense spending is going towards?
00:06:24.480 It's Mark Carney's main thing. It's what he's all about. Here it is.
00:06:27.680 Mark Carney says he's boosting defense spending. $8 billion more for Canada's military. But here's the
00:06:33.520 catch. Half of that increase, about $4.2 billion, is being flushed down the drain on climate vanity
00:06:43.520 projects, not... Yeah. Climate. Everything's going to be about climate. His new modular home project,
00:06:49.920 his housing project, his modular homes, he's up the yin yang, like Paulyev said in investment
00:06:55.920 in modular homes. The company's called Modulaire. Here are the homes he's going to build. This is what
00:06:59.360 they're going to look like, folks. Does this look like a home you want to live in?
00:07:02.000 You got gravel for a front yard? This is a get-rich-quick scheme for Mark Carney and his
00:07:10.240 friends. And he's already really rich. Now, what do I expect from government? I was on
00:07:15.440 Cory Morgan's show the other day. He asked me, what do you think is going to happen in government?
00:07:20.160 Here's what he had to say. What do you think we got to look forward to as the parliament opens this year?
00:07:24.320 Well, you sent me a text message a few days back and said you wanted to talk about parliament. And I
00:07:29.120 started thinking about what was coming up. I think there are a few things, well, a lot of things
00:07:32.560 that conservatives aren't going to like, but I was wondering what really had changed
00:07:37.760 since the beginning of the year. I mean, Paulyev certainly has a different riding now. He's in
00:07:42.240 Battle River Crowfoot. He'll actually be in parliament and he'll be in question period with
00:07:46.640 Mark Carney, which should be interesting because I don't think there are too many people better than
00:07:50.080 Pierre Paulyev when it comes to question period. Paulyev is one of the best at that.
00:07:57.280 And of course, he'll be able to bring up tariffs and maybe the pipelines, which you've discussed
00:08:01.360 as well. But I don't think a hell of a lot has changed. And that's the sad thing about this. We
00:08:05.680 had an election on April 28th. Carney was named the prime minister a month and a half or so before
00:08:10.960 that. But Paulyev is going to bring up the same things that are plaguing Canadians right now.
00:08:15.280 Cost of living, food prices, crime, car theft, the price of homes, young people can never own a 1.00
00:08:20.800 home, homelessness, food lines, immigration levels, temporary foreign workers. These are the things
00:08:25.760 that are going to be discussed, which are basically the same things he was discussing in the House of
00:08:29.920 Commons. You could probably go back and download a YouTube video of him the last time he was in
00:08:34.480 parliament and question period with Justin Trudeau, put it on ad infinitum, and it would be exactly the
00:08:40.320 same nonsense we're dealing with right now. And it's just a sad state of affairs here in Canada.
00:08:44.880 And just think about it. They're going back into parliament. And in the whole year, I think
00:08:49.120 parliament's going to be sitting for 73 days or something like that at the 365. It's disgraceful.
00:08:55.280 Am I wrong? Do you think this government is going to solve any of your problems?
00:09:01.520 The government is not the solution to the problem. Government is the problem, Ronald Reagan. But Mark
00:09:06.240 Carney seems to think he can spend his way into wealth in this country. He can't do that. God only knows
00:09:12.720 what the budget is going to be like and who knows what the deficit is going to be like. What, 92
00:09:16.240 billion dollars? All of this spending. Let me ask you the question. How are the price of groceries
00:09:21.680 right now? How's the cost of living working out for you? I'm not optimistic. And I got to sit around
00:09:27.120 and watch these clowns in the House of Commons up until Christmastime, spending more of our money
00:09:33.680 and solving none of our problems. Pretty sad, isn't it?
00:09:40.160 Thanks for watching. I do appreciate it. If you liked the video, it's pretty depressing,
00:09:45.040 isn't it? If you liked the video, give it a thumbs up, subscribe to the channel,
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